The Sun. — London, England, 1808-08-08 00:00:00

;t, p 4 ci re7s from the Gv7ernment to all the Prelates of Tuscuiv, 'cur ArLhaishop transmitted to all the Clergy within his diocese a pastoral letter, of which tiz following is a passage : cc A s so me of those who are suhje& to our autho r;ty, forgetful of the most sacred duties of a Christian, have darod to take the liberty of censuring the Go vernment, we admonish you, both in public and private, to hold the Sovereign in respea and honour, and by your example and instruaions to encourage the faithful to obedience. Remember that the holy Apostle Paul calls Kings the servants of God ; and the Kings - of 'whom the Apostle speaks were no other than heathens and adversaries to the cause of Christ. The true Christian is the enemy of no man, much less of the Emperor, for he is aware that his Majesty holds his appointment from God, and that he must love and honour him, and offer up his prayers for his preservation." PARIS, JULY 26.—Letters from Bayonne of the 22d inst. state, that at eight o'clock the preceding evening his Majt,,,tv had set oft from Marac, on his v.-ay to Pau. It is positively asserted that his Ma jesty intends to make a progress through the southern departments of his empire. On the 19th, the Postmaster at Agen received an order by express to send a certain number of horses to a stage between th:it place and Tarlees ; a similar order was sent to Perigneux to forward a relay to Agen. The-t: preparations announce the intention of his Majesty to pass through those places. The repairs and alterations in the interior of the Thuilleries are carried on with redoubled a6tivity. Within these tew days the workmen have been in creased to double their former number. From this circumstance we inter the speedy return of his Ma jesty to Paris. _ Letters froni Burgos of the 17th state, that his Catholic Majesty was on the following day to con tinue his journey to the capital. His Majesty con tinued to enjoy the best state of health. The whole city was illuminated every evening. His Majesty had granted a full pardon to several persons who were in custody, on account of the _disturbances which had occurred there, and ordered thew to be set at liberty. In every place lie passed through he gave prows of his tender and benevolent dispo sition. The five per cents. are this day at 85f. 50c. and Bank shares, with the dividend from the Ist of July, 1300. 50c. An article from Spezzia says :—" We are all alive in this place, and the preparations for the construc tion of a new arsenal are carried on in every part of the Gulf with the utmost aaivitv.- M. Salinatoris, Intendant General of Crown Lands beyond the Alps, arrived at Genoa on the 13th, to purChase a Palace for the use of his Majesty the Em peror and King. His Iniperial Highness the Viceroy of Italy arrived on the pith at Guastalla, from Milan. On the 17th he arrived at Modena, and on the 18th at Bologna. Every where he met with the most joy ful reception, ANOTHER AFTICLE, SANE DATE. The people of Nantes are in expe&ation of speedily seeing his Majesty in that place. At Brest, Roche fort, and St. Maio, raze greatest preparations are mak ing to give him ine most magnificent, reception, whenever he shall pass that way. General Menou, whom Imperial Majesty .has appointed Gowrnor-General in Tuscany, arrived in Florence on the loth inst. He alighted at the Palace of Pitti, where he will continue . ro reside. An article from Frankfort of the e3d• inst. says— f' Within the last twenty-four hours three French couriers have passed through this city ; one going from Paris to Dresden, another from Cassel to Paris, and the third from the army to Paris. The Queen of Spain arrived at Stupinis near Turin, on the 14th ; she was to continue her journey the following day for Spain. I:LuniiNct, JULY '24.—,We learn 'that this town tmst forthwith provide 140 men to join the guards of the coast. They will be taken from between the tages.of 25 and 45. The number of young men that we are to be rated at for the standing army is not yet publicly known, 1 1 .1A1LS. Amity! , 13-1 Ciuttenburgh, t Eieligntiand, t Dubiin , t Wa tcrfuid. Du L---1 Gottenbury,h, z Dublin, i Waterford, PRICE OF STOCKS THIS liA Y AT TWPILVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - 67 # I Qinninin THE SUN. sOLIM QUIS DICIELL YALSUM AUDE4T ? LO. D 0 N, ItIO*DAY, AUGUST 8, 1808. GLORIOUS NEWS FROM SPAIN.-SUR- RENDER OF GENERAL DUPONT, &c. IT is with the most sincere pleasure we inform our Readers that Lieutenant ALT, of the Black Jake Lugger, arrived this morning at the Admiralty, with an official account of the Surrender.of General Du- roNT, with the whole of his army, magazines, am- munition, &c. It appears from the official account transmitted by Gen. CASTANOS, that - he attacked Gen.DuPoNT on the coth ult. The Spanish General ~hav;ng received intelligence that a corps of 8000 men was on its march to join Gen. DUPONT, resolved to attack hirr. before the jun6lion took place, and the action commenced, as we have already stated, on the 20th ult. It was most obstinateiy contested fur some time, but at length the Patriots pre- trailed, and buroNT was completely defeated with very great loss. General CAST ANOS was preparing io attack hitn next mor&no., when General Du- PONT, hi order to save his whole army from destrpc- proposed to swrender. A ;legotigion imme- diately took place, and the whole of the. French army, including eight thousand men that were on their march to join him, surrendeird pri soners of war, with all their artillery, rnaga- zines, &c. &c. So that to use the words of. General CASTANOS, in his official account of this glorious vi&ory, " there is not now a single French- man in arms in the whole of Andalusia." General DUPONT'S Army, at the commencement of the aetion, amounted to 12,000 men. 'We congratulate our Readers on this most glo rious and decisive victory, the advantages of which are almost incalculable. It will add, if possible, to the enthusiasm with which ale Spani3ll Patriots are ac- tuated, and inspire them with a just confidence in their own power. Its effeas in dispiriting the French must ID3 in the same proportion, for from the commencement of the Revolution they have never sustained so compete a defeat. But this is not all; the armies of Andahisi a edValenciaare noweom, pletely at liberty—they may advance without aanger towards Madrid ; for by the vi6tories which they have obtained over DUPONT and MoNc EY, the French force in Valencia and Andalusia is completely annihilated. Lieutenant ALT, who brought the Dispatches, left Corunna on the .7cl instant. We have also the satisfa&ion of informing our Readers, that Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY has effeEted a landing in Portugal, and, according to the last ac. counts, he was within two days :parch of Lisbon, with 14,000 men. Dutch Papers to the Ist instant reached town - yesterday, which contain intelligence from Paris of the 27th ult. BUONAPARTE quitted Bayonne on the 21st, and went in the first instance to Pau, but with regard to the remainder of hiS journey it is involved in studied obscurity. According to one account, he is going to make a tour through the Southern De partments of France : another states that Leis going to Brest. -It is probable, -however, that be will visit Paris in the first instance, and then proceed to Strasburgh. Flom the movements of the French . Troops,-as detailed in these Papers, it seems plain that BUONAPARTE either intends immediately to attack Austria; or that he wishes to overawe her by assembling such large bodies of Troops or be! t...en tiers. Indeed if we may credit tie infelli&r:nee brought by a Gentleman who arrived in Town yes terday from Holland, France and Austria may be considered as tie Wally at War ; for he states; that the Austrian Ministers in France and Holland have demanded their Passports, and that General AN DREOSSY has quitted Vienna. We have not at pre sent the means of ascertaining whether . this intelli gence be true to its full extent or not, but• certainly all the accounts which have reached us from the Continent for some time past have indicated an ap proaching rupture between Austria and France. We have again to notice, with satisfaotion, the extraordinary silence preserved by the French and Dutch Papers respe&ing the. affairs of Spain. The accounts from Bayonne came down, as •we have • already stated, to the 22d ult. and we may there fore safely inter that at that time no intelligence favourable to the French had reached that place, Or it • would have been pompously announced to the Public. King JOSEPH, it appears, was at Burgos on the 17th, and was to set out the next day for Madrid. A minute, but very uninteresting detail is given in . these Papers of Deputations, Szc.• that waited upon him, of the a6ls of clemency which he performed, and of the gracious condescension Which marked the whole of his condu&. If a rupture should aftually take place bet Keen Austria and BUONAPARTE, *e have the satisfa(Stion of Isnowing, from the best authority, - that the former is so well prepared for the hostility of this great Disturber of the Earth that we are in no appre hensions of the issue. The Austrian army never was in a better condition than it is at the present moment. All those officers who were suspeaed to be in the interest of France have been dismisSed; and some of them have been punished. The Troops in general have the best disposition, and burn for an opportunity of retrieving that charac ter which they lost under the treachery or stupidity of MACK. They now perfeelly understand the cha raaer of BUONAPARTE, they view him with horror, since his conduB to the Papal Father, and they are animated by a determined spirit of loyalty and patriotism, as well as inspired by a religious zeal against the enemy of all faith. This morning a Mail from Gotteribtargh arrived, the intelligence which it brings is not important bu t we have seen a private letter which states, that a very severeakion hao taken place between tbeFrerg;ll rind a Pru9.F_ , :an Cops neat Pillan, in which the fo-- mer qaffered severely. Tile Letter to which we al lude merely mentions the faa, without giving any details. IF all sense of national charader were not lost among Frenchmen, since they experienced the hor rors of the Revolution, and have been kept in the most abjed state of terror by their present Oppressor, how would they feel in seeing their countrymen dragged away for the purpose of assisting their Ty rant in throwing his -chains upon an unoffending people. It is among the most extraordinary events of human life, that a people who a few years ago committed the most frantic and horrible excesses in pursuit of visionary freedom, should -mow be employed in the infamous attempt to , ' extend that slavery to others which they so lamentably 'endure themselves. What must they think of their Present situation; in being under the do minion of a man, if 'he may be so . called, w ho acknowledges no law but his own will, and who would punish them for daring to have any thought adverse to his views, if he could penetrate into the mind and dete& them. But what will future times think of the people of all the other Continental States, who can calmly see this Tyrant proceed in his flagitious career, and attempt to reduce Spain to bondage, conscious as they must be, that if he succeeds in that iniquitous measure, Iris power will have no bounds, and that they may exped everyi thing from his oppression and rapacity. A resoltiie. struggle now in different parts of Europe,. formidable as the Usurper is, would divide that power so muchi as to paralyze his efforts, and effed .the general deliverance of Europe. France is at present in such a wretched state of misery and terror, notwithstand ing that she has the spoil of so many States to gratify her taste, and flatter her national vanity, that she would doubtless be the first to 'throw off the yoke of her low-born Tyrant, if she saw any prosped of a similar spirit in the other vassal States. - Let us hcipe that the example of Portugal and Spain will excite their emulation. Surely, after the treatment which the POPE has suffered, the. Catholics of every Coun try will view his oppressor 'with horror, and their vengeance will be roused against a Tyrant, wlio„., in his attack upon the latter Country, has shewn a degree of treachery and turpitude extraordi nary even in him, whose whole life has been chiefly marked by those featurei, and who has:, not one quality to recommend him to the esteem of mankind. But indeed we may infer from the Ty rant's retreat from Bayonne, that he is not without of having provoked the ,feelinigs of all Vs'etrope to the extreme of indignation, and that a spirit may prevail which will 110 longer leave its fate in the hands of one individual, and that individual of so odious and execrable a chamder. Yesterday morning I-Irs MAJESTY and the Prin cesses SoptitA, AUGUSTA, and AMELIA, accompa. nied by Lady THYNNE, Generals CARTWRIGHTancI FITZROY, rode to St. George's Chapel, and beard'4 . sermon. His MAJESTY . and the Royal Party, after 4e4rin g an excellent discourse, returned to the Palace; This is the first sermon Mr. Mr ER has preached before the . KING since his being presented as one o f the Canons of Windsor. Transports to the amount of 2000 tons are to as semble. in the Downs, and proceed to Cork without delay, where another embarkation of troops is to take place. Government, we. understand, intend to allow a number of Half-pay Officers to volunteer their ser vices in Spain and Portugal, to assist in the organiza tion of the patriotic masses. A letter from Amsterdam, dated the 28th, states • the arrival of a British Minister 14 Vienna, supposed to be Mr ADAIR ; that he had a flattering reception from the Austrian MiniSter, Count STADION, and had had several interviews with him and the Rus sian Ambassador Prince ..KURAKIN. Mr. TONKIN, by permission of. the Admiralty, will make an attempt, in a few days, to raise the Royal George, at Spithead. An insurrection lately broke out in the heart of European Turkey, which for some time threatened the most serious consequences. • Tallier Pacha, the late Kiatnacan, who had been exiled to Demoteca in Romania, six leagues from 'Adrianople, found means to collet a great number of partisans, includ ing deserters from the Vizier's army, and openly declared himself against the Porte—he advanced to Burgo, and great numbers of disaffeacd persons flocked to his standard. There, however, be . re ceived a Messenger from the Grand Seignior, iwith a pardon, and an offer of the Government of Varna, in Bulgaria, on the Black Sea; in consideration of which he lowered the flag of revolt, and'clistn' iSsed his troops. A circumstance lately occurred at St. Petersburgh, which occasioned much offence to the French 'Arn bassador. A Work was published at the booksafera' of the Imperial Academy of Sciences entitled Ob servations sur l'armee Francaise de derniers terns, a a partir de 1792, jusqu'en 1808, which , contained some refleEtions on the French army and its Em peror. The Ambassador applied to Count ROMAN ZOW for the suppression of this work, and the pu nishment of its author ; but the Emperor ALEX ANDER peremptorily refused to do either: The Am bassador threatened to leave St. Peterburgh, but af terwards thought proper to tnoderate hiS resentment. In addition to the arrangements made by the Danish Government to preserve the communication between Zealand and the Continent, a corps of Greenland Cajaks has been raised, to serve as expresses on the Belts. The bogs are made of seal-skins, and are moved with uncommon rapidity, NAVAL NEWS, From the LONDON GilZ r TIF, Av. 6. Admiralty-Office, Aug. 6, 1 808. Cop:'y - or a Letter from k ice-Admiral Vishon, Com mander in Chief of His Majesty's Sliips and Ves sels at Leith, to the Hun. W. W. Pole, dated Aug• 2, 1808. sin,l I am to beg you will be pleased to lay, before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the inclosed Letter which I have received from Captain Dix; 0 1 his Majesty's-Sloop Cygnet, giving an - account•ct tt.e capture of the Danish PriVateet Brig Christiand. mountingfourteen i guns, with a , complement of siFl men : out three days from Christiana. The - Privateer has just anchored in Leith Roads I am, &c. J. VASHON Ills Majesty's Sloop Cygnet, at :.ka) ; • - Slit, July 27, 1808. bcg leave to inform you, that, after a 'Chace of nine hours, I had the good fortune to come up with and capture the Danish Brig privateer Christiana. mounting fourteim guns, twelve 1 -pounder car renades, and two long nines; • manned • with sixty men ; out three days from- Christiana 'without hav ing made any captures. She is vi&ualled and stored for one ttiOnth, and was proceeding off the NorttA End•of-Shetland, for the purpose of intercepting our homeward-hound Greenla,ichnen. The Christiana was formerly an English Mei chant Brig. I have the Honour to be, &c. EDWARD DIX. J. Fils!zon, Esq. Vice-Admiral of the Bias, &c. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 6.—Arrived the Cheerly Gun• brig, Lieut. FOULLERTON, from a cruize; and the Indefatigable Frigate, Capt. RODD, from the Coast of France. The Leviathan, of 74 guns, is completely re fitted, and will go out of Hamoaze to-day. Arrived this morning a French Letter of ?Margie, of 22 guns, laden with sundry merchandize, from Bourdeaux bound to the Isle of France, captured . bf the Indefatigable Frigate, Capt. RODD. SHEERNESS, Aug. s.—Arrived the Eliza Tender from Shields with impressed men and volunteers for the Fleet. AUG, 6.—Came down the River the Deptford :4%1F with men for the Fleet. The Drake Sloop, lately returned from the West Indies, has been broke up at this place. Sailed His Majesty's Ship Bloodhound for Deal. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 7.—Arrived the Scylla sloop 'Of War and Fearless Gun-brig, viith a convoy, from the Downs ; also the Firm Gun-brig from Guernsey• Sailed the Hardy Gun-brig, with a convoy, 1O the Dawns. kiiila.sty's Ship Curs,ilfice is appointed CQZY97 for Spain and Portugal. DEAL, AUG. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's Brig Spar' row, from Jamaica, having under convoy the- ?Tut' ty, CROSBY ; Ellen, Rosso:; Jonah, CUMMINGS Duke of Kent, Canada, Penus, and the Cambridge, which have sailed for the River. Arrived his Majesty's Ship Illustricus from Ports mouth, and remains with the Sparrow, and the rest of,tbe Ships, at , per last. LEITH, AUG. 4.—On Monday last sailed from Leith Roads, the Ringdove and Spitfire Sloops, 01 1 a cruize; also the Proteaor Gun-brig, with the Transports with the 4th Battalion of Royals, late!, embarked at Aberlady Bay, for Harwich. Sailed, on Tuesday, the Clio Sloop of War on 4 cruize. Same day was landed from his Majesty's Ship Ardent, the crew of a Danish Schooner Privateer, captured on the coast of Sweden (and sent son time since into a Swedish port), and marched under a military escort to Greenlaw prison. Also, arrived on Tuesday, a Danish Privateer !:c Brig, of 14 guns and Go men, captured by his Ma' jesty's Sloop Cygnet, off Shetland. The Cygn€l, with the prisoners on board, is not arrived. Thursday afternoon La Loire, Capt.SCHOMBEROI and the Success, Capt. AYscouGH, arrived at Ports' mouth from the Greenland Seas, where they have been cruizin g for the protection of the Whale Fi s hc r y-"" off the White Sea, along the Coast of Norway, e.‘c. They were off Spitzbergen, on the 3d of Jut3e) when that place was covered with snow.—Tnei were surrounded by a number of islands eilf ice at that time.—They went as far to the Northward at between 77 deg. and 78 deg. (which is only iv de' trees from the North Pole, and to. 45: E. 10ng...." . They left the seas with the trade for the season. The Parton, Fora), is arrived at Liverpool from Barbadoes, which place she left on the lath June; and on the 18th July, in lat. 41. 26. long. 43. was chased by a French privateer, of 32 guns. Tbe Belleisle, with a fleet under convoy from Ports' mouth, bad arrived at Barbadoes. RIFLE Coars.—At an early boUr on SaturdAY cr mornin, the Duke of Cumberland's Sharp-shooteri mustered' in the King's Mews, and marched frog thence to Montpelier Gardens, w h ere th e y we) through a variety of manoeuvres under the diretti° P of Major BARBER. A trial of skill then, took plaG ll among the best marksm en f or a mont hl y go ld mec l3 ,`. After a number of shots had b een p ut i n t h e )3011 1 eye, the prize was won by C or p ora l P owrEous , wb c, obtained the silver cup some time since. Tile IVI O P finally presented the medal to the victor with apPr ° ‘ priate compliments on his skill and success. Abe priZe for the best swordsman was to have been c° l/ ,' tended, but the rain compelled th e Gt.sps to trart : ' off the ground about twelve o'clock.